Current Events > YOUNGER people from THE SOUTH are dying from Coronavirus cuz they are OBESE

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-unique-threat-south-young-people/609241/

So far, about one in 10 deaths in the United States from COVID-19 has occurred in the four-state arc of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, according to data assembled by the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer collaboration incubated at The Atlantic. New Orleans is on pace to become the next global epicenter of the pandemic. The virus has a foothold in southwestern Georgia, and threatens to overwhelm hospitals in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The coronavirus is advancing quickly across the American South. And in the American South, significant numbers of younger people are battling health conditions that make coronavirus outbreaks more perilous.

The numbers emerging seem to indicate that more young people in the South are dying from COVID-19.

Tricia Neuman, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says this analysis points to the underlying issues that might complicate or worsen the pandemic in the South. Due to high rates of conditions like lung disease and heart disease and obesity, the people living in these states are at risk if they get the virus, Neuman told me. These arent people who are sick, but these are people who have underlying comorbidities that put them at higher risk of serious illness if they get infected.

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Obesity is a big risk factor.

People were pointing this out a month ago, when gfaqians and others were 'lol boomers', 'lol smokers'.

A pandemic, one for which we have no immunity, will find you and it will kill.

It gives no fucks about your hubris, or your favourite internet hang-out.

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not surprised. being fat puts one at greater risk of contracting the virus

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Younger people shows two 50 year olds

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Hopefully this inspires CE to start eating healthy and exercising. Lots of CE men live off of fast food and sit all day.

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ZeroX91 posted...

Younger people shows two 50 year olds

They're both in their early 20s.

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F*** I'm a little chubby. But nowhere near that big. Like 230.
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Dark_SilverX posted...

They're both in their early 20s.

One of them is holding a gen 2 cellphone, they aren't in their 20s or the pic is from the early 90s.

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Religion seems to be more important than science in the south.

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@Vegy

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CosmicShadows posted...

F*** I'm a little chubby. But nowhere near that big. Like 230.

how tall are you tho

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Bump

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Micheal Osterholm said on Joe Rogans Podcast that, lots of people don't associate Obesity as a Health Condition, but it is, and that's why Americans are at higher risk. This dude saw this coming.

https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw


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Too dumb to live.

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Dude, did your main get banned?

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ZeroX91 posted...

One of them is holding a gen 2 cellphone, they aren't in their 20s or the pic is from the early 90s.

They're from the south, dude. They're a decade behind the rest of the world

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Another fear monger topic sigh

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Another fear monger topic sigh

Fuck off

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Sad reality

JBaLLEN66 posted...

Another fear monger topic sigh

*sigh*

Another guy poking fingers in his ear and screaming LaLaLaLa as loud as he can because his feelings are hurt.

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CosmicShadows posted...

F*** I'm a little chubby. But nowhere near that big. Like 230.

230 is a little chubby?

jfc dude

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Colorahdo posted...

230 is a little chubby?

jfc dude

If he is really tall that could be accurate I guess.

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Kellan228 posted...

not surprised. being fat puts one at greater risk of contracting the virus

Everyone has the same generic risk at contracting the virus. What's different is our underlying factors and ability to recover from it. Obviously obesity is a significant problem.

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Feline_Heart posted...

They're from the south, dude. They're a decade behind the rest of the world

What an asinine post

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Colorahdo posted...

230 is a little chubby?

jfc dude

I'm 6ft 4 and a shade under 210lbs. I consider myself a little chubby. 230lbs would be borderline obese for me.

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Big women are gonna go extinct if this goes on any longer

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They were wrong about masks and 14 days for quarantine and now we know about young people dying from covid19.

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Seems pretty straightforward that preexisting health conditions would play a factor in this.

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Diabetes is the 2nd biggest risk factor for death from COVID19 behind advanced age. It's an even bigger risk than heart or low respiratory disease.

Add to the fact that outside of Texas, Florida, and New Orleans, the overwhelming majority of the south is rural. This means that the nearest hospital is a 20 to 40 minute drive away.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/the-south-sickest-part-of-a-sick-america-falls-prey-to-virus

A virus that is particularly lethal for people with underlying health conditions is now spreading into the unhealthiest part of the U.S.: the South.

For decades, people in the 11 states that seceded during the Civil War -- Americas poorest region -- have suffered from a scourge of obesity and hypertension, which intensify the danger of the coronavirus and the Covid-19 respiratory disease that it causes. Four of the five states with the highest diabetes rates are in the South. And eight didnt expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, leaving thousands of families without access to routine care, even as financially troubled rural hospitals wither away.

Those factors give the South a special vulnerability, as did the haphazard response from some governors as the disease began to course through the country. Without clear direction from the Trump administration, they were loath to mandate stay-at-home orders. Beaches were open in Florida, churches held services in rural Tennessee and Mardi Gras went on in Louisiana.

Now Covid-19 has infected 47 long-term care centers in Georgia, overwhelmed hospitals in New Orleans, spread into at least six Alabama nursing homes, forced the evacuation of scores of elderly residents from a Tennessee rehabilitation center and killed a country music star in Nashville.

Covid-19 is going to be a disaster in the Southeast, said Aaron Milstone, a Tennessee pulmonologist. Well see higher morbidity, which is getting sick from the virus, and higher mortality, which is dying from the virus.

That prediction is already playing out in Louisiana, which saw Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in New Orleans after weeks of Carnival celebrations ended last month. Of the 239 Covid-19 fatalities there, 40% had diabetes, 25% were obese and 21% had heart problems, according to state figures.

We, in general, have a sicker population, and we are concerned that our outcomes in the Covid-19 pandemic are going to be worse because of that, said Joseph Kanter, an assistant state health officer.

The South is the sickest part of a sick country: The U.S. is unhealthier on average than other developed nations.

Despite spending dramatically more on health care than other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Americans die younger. The nation spends an annual average of $9,892 per person, which is 2.5 times more than the OECD average. The U.S. has the highest obesity rate among the 36 OECD member nations, and its life expectancy is two years less than the average of 78.8.

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What if you're one of those weird people who isn't obese but who also doesn't exercise regularly or eat right then would you be at the same risk level as an obese person?

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